Hey, how’s it going? 🤝
Some of you wonder what happened to the demo version of Scorchlands. In case you did not read the first Steam News announcing the game, the demo was available on Steam temporarily. We published it in August and it disappeared after two weeks since the day Star Drifters announced the publishing of the game.
Nonetheless, the community’s growing - more and more people visit the game’s Discord 🎧 server asking “what happened to the demo version?”. We got answers.
Surprise! The demo version of Scorchlands is back on Steam! 🐦
That’s not the only important thing we’ve got to share with you.
During the upcoming Steam Next Fest, there will be a stream from the latest build of the game! 📺
📅 Save the date! Next Fest will take place October 3-10, 2022 @10AM PDT / 7 PM CEST.
(and yes, it means that the release date will be announced sooner than some of you could expect).
To quote… Well, Steam, Steam Next Fest is “a multi-day celebration of upcoming games. Explore and play hundreds of game demos, watch developer livestreams, and chat with teams about their games in progress.”
So - celebrate it with us.
Changelog for new demo version:
## [Demo Update] -- 2022-09-22
Changes:
- Players can now start building from outside colony borders when they are within 3 tiles of distance from colony borders
- Players without an access to a mouse scroll wheel can now zoom in and out with [,] and [.] rebindable keybinds
- Added an option to rotate buildings with Shift + mouse scroll wheel
- UI scaling can be now tuned down to 50% to accomodate for ultra wide displays
- Players can now pan the view in overview mode by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen
- Game icon has been updated
Tutorial:
- Camera tutorial has been tweaked to track cumulative zoom in/out instead of forcing player to zoom out far away
- The final enemy wave in tutorial was adjusted to be a bit easier to beat
- The font scale in mission panel and large tutorial panels was increased to raise readability
- Most of the text in tutorial was reworked to be shorter and much more readable
Bugs:
- Fixed rare issue after loading which would cause some terrain to become volcanic
- Fixed a rare bug where mirrors would be rotated incorrectly after loading the game
Gotta go now 🏃♂️
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090100/Scorchlands/
Yours truly,
Ringlab ⚗️